Kitty Cat update

We went to the kittypractor today and got a blood pressure check. He asked a bunch of questions about her quality of life and how she moves. He is satisfied that she is stable and doesn't need to have meds adjusted. Her heart murmur didn't get worse and is pretty slow. He addressed my concerns about her health and said that the most likely thing to watch for in her condition was for her to have another stroke at which point she won't be able to keep being independent. I figure I can manage to keep up with her if she is willing to stick around.

I see people looking at her with pity when they come over. Like I am cruel to keep her around. She isn't in pain, she refuses help, she requires us to allow her to be independent, and she gets around just fine if a bit slowly.

The food finicky is apparently a well documented thing in older cats. So long as she is eating her dry food and drinking water there is nothing to worry about. She did lose another ounce but he wasn't worried about an amount that was so small, "That could just be that she had a bowel movement this morning."

Overall she's doing about as well as she can be given the health issues she has.